All air-breathing vertebrate animals have lungs in order to breathe.
Pulmonary medicine deals with the causes, diagnosis, prevention and
treatment of diseases and disorders that affect the lungs. Specialists in
pulmonary medicine provide diagnostic, management and critical care services
for a broad range of pulmonary diseases, including sleep-related breathing
problems, pulmonary infections and lung disorders caused by other disease,
as well as problems associated with blood vessels in the lungs.

Some of the conditions our physicians diagnose and treat include:

Bronchial asthma

Chronic bronchitis

Emphysema

Pneumonia

Sleep apnea

Sarcoidosis, a slow chronic disease in which normal tissue is replaced
by granules of epithelium and lymphoid cells